You remember The Most Useless machine, right? The one that encapsulates our entire interaction with technology by boiling it down to a zero-sum back and forth that ends in a meltdown? Well here's its big brother.

The Most Useless Machine is a box with a switch. You flick the switch, and the box opens, flipping…
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This is certainly a more impressive iteration on the same idea—and one that seems to have infinite stamina and patience—but the real question is whether that makes it more or less useless. I mean, nothing's getting done, but is eight times the nothing more nothing or less nothing? Does nothing matter? Does nothing matter? Whatever the case, this machine is really good at what it does: nothing. [Hack a Day]